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Evolutionary Beings and Static Typal Beings in the Universal Manifestation · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  As with many words in the English language, the word soul
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  has various nuanced meanings. As Srioro Bindo explains,
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  English as a very fluid language can at times be very imprecise
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  in this way. However, this is just one of the
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  issues Srioro Bindo takes up here in the citation below.
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  One very interesting aspect is the implication that the
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  evolutionary process takes place on Earth in an earthly body, and
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  the beings that inhabit other realms, including various gods
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  and demons as we term them, are typal beings that are not
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  subject to evolution in their native realms.
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  Rather, if they at some point determine that they want to
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  participate in the evolutionary process, they need to take birth
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  in the world and undergo the processes that pertain here.
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  Typal beings exist in their own native worlds and act within the
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  framework of those worlds. They tend to be static and do
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  not change over time. Depending on their ability to
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  communicate into our world, they may influence action here and
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  even manifest some form here in order to do that, including
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  through what is called possession of a living being.
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  We may understand the concept from the unrelated world of
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  video games which use NPCS, non player characters to influence
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  the action and direction of the game.
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  Those NPCS do not undergo the kind of changes that the players
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  experience. Similarly, whether we turn them
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  gods, angels, demons, asuras, rakshasas or vital beings of
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  some sort, we can experience their impact while they remain
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  unchanged in their character and nature in our own world and
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  lives. The unique difference between an
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  evolutionary being and a non evolutionary being turns out to
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  be the existence of the soul and the development of the soul
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  individuality in the form of the psychic being which carries the
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  evolutionary growth from life to life as universal manifestation
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  unfolds and develops, Sriorvindo writes.
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  Quote. The word soul has various
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  meanings according to the context.
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  It may mean the Purusha supporting the formation of
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  prakruti, which we call a being, though the proper word would be
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  rather a becoming. It may mean, on the other hand,
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  specifically the psychic being in an evolutionary creature like
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  man. It may mean the spark of the
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  divine, which has been put into matter by the descent of the
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  divine into the material world and which upholds all evolving
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  formation. Here there is and can be no
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  psychic being in a non evolutionary creature like the
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  Asura. There can be none in a God who
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  does not need one for his existence.
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  But what the God has is a perusha and a procrity or energy
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  of nature of that perusha. If any being of the typo worlds
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  wants to evolve, he has to come down to earth and take a human
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  body and accept to share in the evolution.
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  It is because they do not want to do this that the vital beings
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  try to possess men so that they may enjoy the materialities of
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  physical life without having the burden of the evolution or the
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  process of conversion in which it culminates.
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  End Quote. Reference.
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  Trior, Obinda and the Mother. The psychic being, soul, its
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  nature, mission and evolution. Section 1.
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  Meaning and Nature of the Psychic Being, pages 7 to 8.